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LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers recognized Angelina Napoleon, the Allegany-Limestone athlete who set a national record this month in the ...

NEW YORK — Fed up with hundreds of bootleg pot shops, New York launched new inspections this month aimed at getting rid of the unlicensed stores that ...

NEW YORK — Celebrations mingled with displays of resistance Sunday as LGBTQ+ pride parades filled streets in some of the country’s largest cities in a...

One year ago this week, the Supreme Court jettisoned decades of precedent in issuing the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Association decision and str...

NEW YORK (AP) — A law to protect doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is outlawed was signed Fri...

ALBANY — Seneca Nation officials are not pleased with the attitude of some state leaders who want to hold off a New York State Assembly vote on the ne...

There’s just something odd and a little disturbing about the legislative process in New York that’s led to the state Assembly returning to Albany this...

A diverse gathering of state legislators, social justice advocates, faith leaders, union workers and business people rallied Friday in opposition to w...

ELLICOTTVILLE — More than 200 guests attended a 100th anniversary luncheon for the Cattaraugus County Health Department on Thursday. New York State He...

The “Clean Slate” law passed by Democrats in the State Legislature will result in more violence and crime perpetrated against ordinary New Yorkers. Th...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers named a new commissioner for the Department of Social Services on Wednesday. Erin L. Whitcomb, who was na...

WASHINGTON — Venturing back into the nation’s culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would prot...

A few days have passed since the Justice Department informed former President Donald Trump that he had been indicted. Some of the main issues involved...

In George Washington’s farewell address, our nation’s first president spoke about the importance of the people’s power to amend the U.S. Constitution....

ALBANY — People in New York who have old criminal records could have them automatically sealed as long as they remain out of trouble for a certain num...

ALBANY — New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the s...

Progressives in the state Senate and Assembly, who never miss a chance to complain that New York is becoming increasingly unaffordable for working- an...

The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties have dedicated the Barbara K. Chew Memorial Reading Nook at the Olean Public Library. ...